Freestyle skiing: World Cup in Ruka

Freestyle skiing: World Cup in Ruka

Matt Graham of Australia (C) poses after winning gold in the men's moguls at the Freestyle Ski World Cup in Ruka, Finland, on Dec. 8, 2025, alongside silver medalist Ikuma Horishima (L) of Japan and bronze medalist Julien Viel of Canada.

Freestyle skiing: World Cup in Ruka

Freestyle skiing: World Cup in Ruka

Ikuma Horishima of Japan poses for photos after winning silver in the men's moguls at the Freestyle Ski World Cup in Ruka, Finland, on Dec. 8, 2025.

China Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo

China Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun holds a press conference in Beijing on Dec. 8, 2025.

China Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo

China Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun holds a press conference in Beijing on Dec. 8, 2025.

China Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo

China Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun holds a press conference in Beijing on Dec. 8, 2025.

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Kitagawa

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Kitagawa

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Susumu Kitagawa delivers his Nobel Prize lecture in Stockholm on Dec. 8, 2025.

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Kitagawa

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Kitagawa

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Susumu Kitagawa delivers his Nobel Prize lecture in Stockholm on Dec. 8, 2025.

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Kitagawa

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Kitagawa

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Susumu Kitagawa delivers his Nobel Prize lecture in Stockholm on Dec. 8, 2025.

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Kitagawa

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Kitagawa

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Susumu Kitagawa delivers his Nobel Prize lecture in Stockholm on Dec. 8, 2025.

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Kitagawa

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Kitagawa

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Susumu Kitagawa delivers his Nobel Prize lecture in Stockholm on Dec. 8, 2025.

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Kitagawa

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Kitagawa

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Susumu Kitagawa delivers his Nobel Prize lecture in Stockholm on Dec. 8, 2025.

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Kitagawa

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Kitagawa

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Susumu Kitagawa delivers his Nobel Prize lecture in Stockholm on Dec. 8, 2025.

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Kitagawa

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Kitagawa

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Susumu Kitagawa delivers his Nobel Prize lecture in Stockholm on Dec. 8, 2025.

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Kitagawa

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Kitagawa

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Susumu Kitagawa delivers his Nobel Prize lecture in Stockholm on Dec. 8, 2025.

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Kitagawa

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Kitagawa

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Susumu Kitagawa delivers his Nobel Prize lecture in Stockholm on Dec. 8, 2025.

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Kitagawa

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Kitagawa

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Susumu Kitagawa delivers his Nobel Prize lecture in Stockholm on Dec. 8, 2025.

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Kitagawa

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Kitagawa

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Susumu Kitagawa delivers his Nobel Prize lecture in Stockholm on Dec. 8, 2025.

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Kitagawa

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Kitagawa

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Susumu Kitagawa delivers his Nobel Prize lecture in Stockholm on Dec. 8, 2025.

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Kitagawa

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Kitagawa

Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate Susumu Kitagawa delivers his Nobel Prize lecture in Stockholm on Dec. 8, 2025.

Aftermath of strong quake in northeastern Japan

Aftermath of strong quake in northeastern Japan

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2025, shortly after a powerful earthquake struck northeastern Japan.

Aftermath of strong quake in northeastern Japan

Aftermath of strong quake in northeastern Japan

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2025, shortly after a powerful earthquake struck northeastern Japan.

Japan PM Takaichi in parliament

Japan PM Takaichi in parliament

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi attends a plenary session of the House of Representatives in Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2025.

Japan PM Takaichi in parliament

Japan PM Takaichi in parliament

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi attends a plenary session of the House of Representatives in Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2025.

Japan PM Takaichi in parliament

Japan PM Takaichi in parliament

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi heads to attend a plenary session of the House of Representatives in Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2025.

Japanese baseball legend Nagashima dies at 89

Japanese baseball legend Nagashima dies at 89

Former Yomiuri Giants player and manager Shigeo Nagashima (front, C) poses for a photo with Giants manager Tatsunori Hara (front, L) and his players at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan arena on Dec. 8, 2021, after receiving the Order of Culture, Japan's top cultural award, in November 2021. Nagashima, who was a key player on the Giants team that won nine consecutive Central League and Japan Series titles from 1965 to 1973 and later managed the club, died on June 3, 2025, aged 89. (Pool photo)

1st anniv. of Noto Peninsula quake

1st anniv. of Noto Peninsula quake

Photo taken on Dec. 8, 2024, shows wreckage piled up at a temporary site for waste and debris in Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture, created after a powerful earthquake hit central Japan's Noto Peninsula area on Jan. 1.

Expected epicenter area for Nankai Trough megaquake

Expected epicenter area for Nankai Trough megaquake

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 18 Kyodo - The shaded area on the map shows the likely epicenter zone for a megaquake that is expected to occur with a probability of 70-80 percent within 30 years around the Nankai Trough (red line) running along Japan's Pacific coast. The Japanese government issued a megaquake advisory after an M7.1 quake hit southwestern Japan on Aug. 8, 2024, with its epicenter (circle in lower L) located within the area.

Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

(from L) Terumi Tanaka, Toshiyuki Mimaki and Shigemitsu Tanaka, all representatives of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, get interviewed by the media upon their arrival at an airport near Oslo on Dec. 8, 2024. They will attend the award ceremony on Dec. 10.

Football: Spanish La Liga

Football: Spanish La Liga

Real Sociedad's Takefusa Kubo (R) vies for the ball in the first half of a Spanish La Liga football match against Leganes on Dec. 8, 2024, in Leganes, Spain.

Football: Spanish La Liga

Football: Spanish La Liga

Real Sociedad's Takefusa Kubo (L) plays in the first half of a Spanish La Liga football match against Leganes on Dec. 8, 2024, in Leganes, Spain.

Football: Spanish La Liga

Football: Spanish La Liga

Real Sociedad's Takefusa Kubo (R) attempts a shot at goal in the second half of a Spanish La Liga football match against Leganes on Dec. 8, 2024, in Leganes, Spain.

Football: Premier League

Football: Premier League

Brighton's Kaoru Mitoma (L) vies for the ball in the first half of a Premier League football match against Leicester in Leicester, England, on Dec. 8, 2024.

Football: Premier League

Football: Premier League

Brighton's Kaoru Mitoma (2nd from L, front) and teammates celebrate after the team's first goal scored in the first half of a Premier League football match against Leicester in Leicester, England, on Dec. 8, 2024.

Figure skating: Grand Prix Final exhibition gala

Figure skating: Grand Prix Final exhibition gala

Japanese pairs skaters Riku Miura (L) and Ryuichi Kihara perform during the exhibition gala of the Grand Prix Final figure skating competition in Grenoble, France, on Dec. 8, 2024.

Figure skating: Grand Prix Final exhibition gala

Figure skating: Grand Prix Final exhibition gala

Japanese pairs skaters Riku Miura (L) and Ryuichi Kihara perform during the exhibition gala of the Grand Prix Final figure skating competition in Grenoble, France, on Dec. 8, 2024.

Baseball: MLB Winter Meetings

Baseball: MLB Winter Meetings

Photo taken in Dallas, Texas, on Dec. 8, 2024, shows the venue of the Major League Baseball Winter Meetings, set to start the following day for a four-day run.

Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

Toshiyuki Mimaki, a representative of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, meets the press after arriving in an airport near Oslo on Dec. 8, 2024. He will attend the award ceremony on Dec. 10.

Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

Terumi Tanaka, a representative of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors and winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, arrives in an airport near Oslo on Dec. 8, 2024. He will attend the award ceremony on Dec. 10.

Notre-Dame Cathedral reopens to public

Notre-Dame Cathedral reopens to public

People gather in front of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on Dec. 8, 2024, as the Gothic masterpiece reopens to the public the same day after restoration work was almost completed following a fire in 2019.

Notre-Dame Cathedral reopens to public

Notre-Dame Cathedral reopens to public

Mass is held at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on Dec. 8, 2024, as the Gothic masterpiece reopens to the public the same day after restoration work was almost completed following a fire in 2019.

Figure skating: Grand Prix Final exhibition gala

Figure skating: Grand Prix Final exhibition gala

Mone Chiba of Japan performs during the exhibition gala of the Grand Prix Final figure skating competition in Grenoble, France, on Dec. 8, 2024.

Figure skating: Grand Prix Final exhibition gala

Figure skating: Grand Prix Final exhibition gala

Mone Chiba of Japan performs during the exhibition gala of the Grand Prix Final figure skating competition in Grenoble, France, on Dec. 8, 2024.

Figure skating: Grand Prix Final exhibition gala

Figure skating: Grand Prix Final exhibition gala

Yuma Kagiyama of Japan performs during the exhibition gala of the Grand Prix Final figure skating competition in Grenoble, France, on Dec. 8, 2024.

Figure skating: Grand Prix Final exhibition gala

Figure skating: Grand Prix Final exhibition gala

Mao Shimada of Japan performs during the exhibition gala of the Grand Prix Final figure skating competition in Grenoble, France, on Dec. 8, 2024.

Figure skating: Grand Prix Final exhibition gala

Figure skating: Grand Prix Final exhibition gala

Mao Shimada of Japan performs during the exhibition gala of the Grand Prix Final figure skating competition in Grenoble, France, on Dec. 8, 2024.

Figure skating: Grand Prix Final exhibition gala

Figure skating: Grand Prix Final exhibition gala

Kaori Sakamoto of Japan performs during the exhibition gala of the Grand Prix Final figure skating competition in Grenoble, France, on Dec. 8, 2024.

Figure skating: Grand Prix Final exhibition gala

Figure skating: Grand Prix Final exhibition gala

Mone Chiba of Japan performs during the exhibition gala of the Grand Prix Final figure skating competition in Grenoble, France, on Dec. 8, 2024.

Figure skating: Grand Prix Final exhibition gala

Figure skating: Grand Prix Final exhibition gala

Mone Chiba of Japan performs during the exhibition gala of the Grand Prix Final figure skating competition in Grenoble, France, on Dec. 8, 2024.

Figure skating: Grand Prix Final exhibition gala

Figure skating: Grand Prix Final exhibition gala

Mone Chiba of Japan performs during the exhibition gala of the Grand Prix Final figure skating competition in Grenoble, France, on Dec. 8, 2024.

Figure skating: Grand Prix Final exhibition gala

Figure skating: Grand Prix Final exhibition gala

Mone Chiba of Japan performs during the exhibition gala of the Grand Prix Final figure skating competition in Grenoble, France, on Dec. 8, 2024.